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BOTTLE SHEATH.

N0. 328,450. Patented Oct. .20, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. BANGS, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOTTLE-SH EATH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,450, dated October 20, 1885.

Application filed February 9, 1885. Serial No. 155,313.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. Barres, of Boston, (Oambridgeport,) in the county of Middlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Bottle-Sheaths; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2, a side view, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, of a bottle and its sheath provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claim hereinafter presented.

It is customary for bottles holding perfumery or lotions for the skin to be provided with sheaths for them to extend into, such sheaths being generally of pasteboard or other suitable material or materials, and for the purpose of protecting the bottles from injury or being accidentally broken, or for indicating, by writing or printing on the outer surfaces of such sheaths, the name or character of the liquid contents of the bottles or directions for use of such.

In the drawings, a bottle is represented at A as placed within a sheath, B, which is a receptacle or box made of pasteboard and open at one end and fitting to the body of the bottle on its sides and bottom. Into this sheath a bottle to fit it is to be inserted at its open end, as a sword is inserted in its (No model.)

ranged within such cover. or upon them and the cover, there may be printed explanations of the name, character, and uses of the contents of the bottle, or descriptions of other matters incidental thereto or otherwise, or advertisements of the person or others who may sell the matter in the bottle.

In order to hold the cover in close contact with the pack of leaves, an elastic or inelastic band, 0, is fixed at its ends to the sheath and extended across the outer flap of the cover. By slipping such band off the flap the latter as well as any of theleaves may be turned up for observation. The book answers further as a protection to the bottle, or to prevent it from being broken in transit, or while its sheath may be packed alongside that of another hottle, with the book between the two, in which case the book answers as a cushion or yielding packing between the bottles.

I am aware that a flask or bottle has been molded in the form of a book without one of its covers, and that a cover and leaves have been affixed to the back of such flask, all being as represented in the United States Patent No. 169,055. All such differs from my invention, as the flask has no sheath into which it can be inserted, and from which it can be withdrawn.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a bottlesheath, as represented, and a book, combined and arranged substantially as set forth.

CHARLES H. BANGS.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

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